08/16/2013

It's Peach Time!

August is when my peach trees start handing me boatloads of fruit (you can read about my peach tribulations in this earlier post)

There's a good tree and a bad tree. The good tree is taller and thinner and more scraggly looking but produces the bigger peaches that ripen properly and cook up well. The bad tree is HUGE and always looks promising but produces small fruit that never seems to ripen properly. So this is probably its last fruiting year before we cut it down and turn it into chips for the backyard smoker....

Ripe peaches on the"good" tree

Unripe peaches on the "bad" tree

I've picked a few peaches from the good tree and they are delicious this year! So I will soon be going into full pie/cobbler/jam production mode. I have a few new recipes for peaches so I'll be posting 'em as I make em!

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Goals

I was raised with a Scots/German dedication to setting goals. I imagine this was to teach me discipline and help me maintain a forward momentum. I'm sure it was not to create a constant sense of inadequacy.
That was just a bonus.